7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 2

Mr. Reuter has furnished the public, through the Atlantic Cable,

with a brief report of President Johnson's Message to Congress, presented on 2nd December. We have commented at length elsewhere on the two first paragraphs, which announce that Congress has prevented the restoration of the Union, and that the President may defend his office by fore; and need only add here

that Mr. Johnson advocates a return to specie payments as soon as possible, regards public faith as to the Debt as sacred ; feels "no apprehension that Great Britain will persist in refusing the just and reasonable Alabama claims, "as non-intervention is henceforth not more important to America than to other nations ;" announces the purchase of St. Thomas and St. John from Denmark ; and recommends that naturalization in the States should be declared by Congress to exempt an alien from allegiance to his own country.